For the past 12 years, the British public has been constantly subjected to an intense war propaganda justifying Britain’s genocidal wars across Asia and Africa. Despite the absence of any real anti-war movement, the public exasparation with endless warfare became apparent in September with the Government's failure to obtain the necessary support to launch war on Syria. Held two months later, this year’s Remembrance Day events were by far the most elaborate. Apart from the habitual propaganda and fundraising for the Army, overt efforts to pressurise British Muslims into manifesting support for British imperialism and militarism were particularly sinister.

For the past 12 years, the British public has been constantly subjected
to an intense war propaganda justifying Britain’s genocidal
wars across
Asia and Africa. Despite the absence of any real anti-war
movement, the public exasparation with endless warfare became apparent
in September with the Government's failure to obtain the necessary
support to launch war on Syria. Held two months later, this
year’s
Remembrance Day events were
by far the most elaborate. Apart from the habitual propaganda
and
fundraising for the Army, overt efforts to pressurise British Muslims
into manifesting support for British imperialism and militarism were
particularly sinister.

[British] Prime Minister
David Cameron poses for a
photograph with members of the armed forces, The Poppy Girls
and
supporters of
the Poppy Appeal outside [the Prime Minister’s office in]
Downing
Street on
November 7, 2013 in
London,
England. Prime Minister David
Cameron welcomes a Poppy Bus and The
Poppy Girls to Downing Street to support the Royal
British
Legion's Poppy
Appeal. [1]

[Britain's]
Prince Harry and his grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh [Prince
Philip], who
have both served as officers in the theatre of war, made a rare joint
appearance at the Field of Remembrance in Westminster Abbey.

The
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge [Prince William and wife Catherine]
attended a separate event, welcoming military supporters into the
grounds of
Kensington Palace to mark Royal British Legion London Poppy Day, which
raised
£1 million in 24 hours.

They
surprised commuters when they boarded the special bus to
[London’s]
High Street Kensington [Underground] Station and greeted poppy vendors
in the
station. Onlookers were shocked to see them as they walked towards the
station
entrance where the poppies were being sold. [2]

excerpt from: A million Muslims will
defy radicals and wear poppies on Armistice Day

by Nigel Morris, The Independent, 7
November 2013

More than a million Muslims expected to wear
poppies to mark Remembrance
Sunday despite the hostility of Islamist hardliners.

Some
radical voices argue that
poppy-wearing, ceremonies to commemorate the fallen dead and the one
minute's
silence on Armistice Day are all forbidden to devout Muslims. But a
survey
shows that large numbers of people from Pakistani and Bangladeshi
backgrounds,
who comprise about two-thirds of the Muslim population, support poppy
sales.

The
think-tank British Future said
the findings equated to 800,000 poppy-wearers from these two groups
alone, and
calculated the overall figure for the Muslim community to be well over
one
million. It released the research in an effort to counter charges that
British
Muslims are unpatriotic because of protests against UK troops returning
from
war zones.

Although
they acknowledge that many
Muslims are uncomfortable about military action in Afghanistan and
Iraq,
several major mosques have set up poppy stalls - in part to honour the
thousands of Muslims killed in the First World War serving in the
British
Indian army.

The Royal British Legion launched
their National Poppy
Appeal with a star studded concert at RAF [Royal Air Force base in]
Northolt on
Thursday 24 October. Around 2,000 Service men and women, and their
families,
from RAF Northolt and further afield packed into the hangar to enjoy
the free
concert which launched the national Poppy Appeal. […]

“The Poppy
Girls” who sang the official Poppy Appeal 2013
single “The Call (No
Need to Say Goodbye)”,
were brought together by the
[Royal British] Legion after auditions of children of serving members
of the
armed services.[5]

"Democracy icon" Aung San
Suu Kyi delivers a lecture to over
400 soldiers at the Royal
Military Academy Sandhurst, Surrey,
25 October 2013. The
leader of Myanmar's main opposition leader's visit to Sandhurst has
coincided with the launch of the
annual Poppy Appeal by the Royal British
Legion was
preceded by her meeting
with British Prime Minister David Cameron
in London.

"Actually, I have come here to
learn rather than to teach
because I want to learn what it takes to build a good professional army
that is
respected and loved by the people. This is the kind of army I want our
Burmese
Tatmadaw to be. […]

I myself have a great affection for
the army. This has
exposed me to much criticism […]But
it
is right that we should have respect and affection for an institution
that is
intended to be selfless. […]

When [the then head of British
Armed Forces] General David Richards visited
Burma a few months ago, we met him at the
legislature and a question was put to him: “Do the British
people love their
army? ” He said “yes” and he said very
proudly that, according to the polls,
the British people admired the Army more than they admired the doctors
and the
medical profession. And then he was asked why, […]he
said “We are seen as selfless. We
sacrifice ourselves for [the] people”
and he added: “Not just for our own people, but for people
anywhere in the world who might be in need of protection and of the
kind of
military defence that would give them more secure and fulfilling
lives.”
"

[Speech
delivered by Aung San Suu Kyi,the
leader of Myanmar's main opposition party National
League for Democracy,Royal Military
Academy Sandhurst, Surrey, 25 October
2013] [6]